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Greek mythology keeps slipping into online casino entertainment, sometimes quietly and sometimes with a thunderclap. Ancient gods, strange monsters, messy heroics, they land on the reels and feel familiar enough to click. Visuals do plenty of heavy lifting too, with thunderbolts, marble columns, and hazy dreamscapes setting a mood that feels bigger than a spin.
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The first sightings of a ghostly figure wandering the woods near a newly constructed train line in Freehold, New Jersey began in the 1870s. They were usually described as a lady having glowing eyes or a pair of antlers that twinkled in the moonlight. The sightings were most frequent during the harvest moon in woodlands just outside the farms that bordered the town.
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Do you like Andy Warhol? I sure do. He is by far my favorite artist (living or dead) and it always seems like, even when I think I have seen all of his works, there is something new to discover.
Continue reading Must See Exhibit: Andy Warhol Prints at the National Arts Club
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“More than anything, people just want stars, Andy Warhol once remarked. In Myths (1981) he depicts Superman, the Wicked Witch from Wizard of Oz, and other heroes and villains of American culture (including, on the far right, himself). Silver paint alludes to the “silver screen,” and the vertical rows of mechanically reproduced head shots suggest filmstrips or contact sheets, the sources feeding our obsession with celebrity. Yet Warhol’s title is more complex: “myths” could refer to the “mythic” status of movie stars but it also connotes falseness, the distortion of truth, and the fleeting nature of fame.
Photographed in the Whitney Museum in NYC
